“The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.”—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (18411935)

“Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.”—Charles Lamb (17751834)

“Modern tourist guides have helped raised tourist expectations. And they have provided the nativesfrom Kaiser Wilhelm down to the villagers of Chichacestenangowith a detailed and itemized list of what is expected of them and when. These are the up-to- date scripts for actors on the tourists stage.”—Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)

“... for the modern soul, for which it is mere childs play to bridge oceans and continents, there is nothing so impossible as to find the contact with the souls dwelling just around the corner.”—Robert Musil (18801942)